"easily flowing rhyme scheme (tetrameter) of its predecessor, ""The Gruffalo"". The Gruffalo's Child The Gruffalo's Child by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler is the bestselling sequel to ""The Gruffalo"". The story is about the Gruffalo's child (a daughter) who, despite her father's warning, sets off into the ""deep dark wood"" to find the ""big bad mouse"", the only thing her father is afraid of. During her winter journey, she encounters the tracks of snake, owl, and fox from ""The Gruffalo"", each of whom she first suspects to be the ""big bad mouse"", but who in turn tell her where she"
"plays based on traditional tales, Donaldson came across a version of a Chinese story about a little girl who escapes being eaten by a tiger by claiming to be the fearsome Queen of the Jungle and inviting him to walk behind her. The tiger misinterprets the terror of the various animals they meet as being related to her rather than him, and flees. Donaldson sensed that this story could be developed into more than an educational item and returned to it later as a possible basis for a picture book. She decided to make the girl a mouse, and chose"
"Room on the Broom Room on the Broom is a British children's book by writer and playwright Julia Donaldson, illustrated by Axel Scheffler, which tells the story of a kind witch and her cat who invite a number of other animals to join them whilst travelling on her broomstick. ""Room on the Broom"" has been translated into 21 languages and has won 6 book awards (Scottish, Sheffield, Stockport, Norfolk, Blue Peter and Mumsnet). It was first published by Macmillan in 2003 () and since been made into an animated film. The animated film was nominated for an Academy Award for"
"The Way Through the Woods The Way Through the Woods is a crime novel by Colin Dexter, the tenth novel in the Inspector Morse series. It received the Gold Dagger Award in 1992. The plot deals with the search for a beautiful young Swedish woman who went missing a year earlier. An anonymous riddle, in the form of a five-stanza poem, is sent to the police and the case is reopened. The police ask ""The Times"" for help with the poem. Morse and Sergeant Lewis are put in charge of the new investigation. The novel was adapted for television in"
"no longer available. The ""Gruffalo song"" was released with the audiobook, as a standalone CD single, and on a musical CD with other songs from Donaldson's books. Donaldson and Scheffler's sequel, 2004's ""The Gruffalo's Child"" (which tells the story of the gruffalo's daughter, warned by her father of the terrifying mouse) won the ""Best Children's Book"" award in the 2005 British Book Awards. A Gruffalo Woodland Trail has been created at the Dean Heritage Centre, Soudley in the Forest of Dean, UK. The trail depicts the scenes from the book and has been carved by local chainsaw artists out of"
"a Chinese folk tale of a fox that borrows the terror of a tiger. Donaldson was unable to think of rhymes for ""tiger"" so instead she invented a word that rhymes with ""know"". ""The Gruffalo"" won the gold award (in the 0–5 years category) of the 1999 Nestlé Smarties Book Prize. It was the UK's best-selling picture book of 2000, won the 2000 Nottingham/Experian Children's Book award, and the ""Blue Peter"" Best Book To Read Aloud award. The audio version won the Best Children's Audio award in the Spoken Book Awards. In November 2009 the book was voted ""best bedtime"
"series) and Tom Baker (on ""The Boy Who Kicked Pigs""). ""Mouse Noses on Toast"" by Daren King won the Nestle Smarties Book Prize (ages 6–8 years) in 2006, after which King and Roberts collaborated on other titles including ""Peter the Penguin Pioneer"", ""Sensible Hare and the Case of Carrots"" and ""The Frightfully Friendly Ghosties"" series. Roberts also creates picture books for younger readers, some in collaboration with other writers. The best known may be those written by the 2011–2013 Children's Laureate, Julia Donaldson (""Tyrannosaurus Drip"", ""The Troll"" and most recently ""Jack and the Flum Flum Tree""). Others include ""Iggy Peck,"
"best short animated film in 2013. Room on the Broom Room on the Broom is a British children's book by writer and playwright Julia Donaldson, illustrated by Axel Scheffler, which tells the story of a kind witch and her cat who invite a number of other animals to join them whilst travelling on her broomstick. ""Room on the Broom"" has been translated into 21 languages and has won 6 book awards (Scottish, Sheffield, Stockport, Norfolk, Blue Peter and Mumsnet). It was first published by Macmillan in 2003 () and since been made into an animated film. The animated film was"
"paperback edition, and subsequently by a small-format board book edition. It was penned for readers aged three to seven, and is about 700 words long. It is written in rhyming couplets, featuring repetitive verse with minor variance. The story of a mouse's walk through the woods unfolds in two phases; in both, the mouse uses clever tricks to evade danger. On his way the mouse encounters several dangerous animals (a fox, an owl, and a snake). Each of these animals, clearly intending to eat the mouse, invites him back to their home for a meal. The cunning mouse declines each"
"Running on the Cracks Running on the Cracks is award-winning writer Julia Donaldson's first novel aimed at a teenage audience. It was published in 2009. The story revolves around 15-year-old Leo, who runs away from her aunt and uncle's home, where she has been living since the sudden death of her musician parents. Leo is driven away by the disturbing behaviour of her uncle. She does not expect a 46-year-old touching her. She escapes to Glasgow, where she comes across a wide variety of characters, who all help her to solve the mystery of where her grandparents are. Donaldson has"
"to eat the hermit, but he does not know that the old man is able to read thoughts. Finally the hermit changes the tiger back into a mouse and tells him to learn how to take care of himself. Once a Mouse Once a Mouse is a 1961 book by Marcia Brown. Released by Scribner Press, it was the recipient of the Caldecott Medal for illustration in 1962, Brown's second honor. ""Once a Mouse"" is a magical Indian fable that tells the story of a small mouse and a hermit that knows how to change animals into something else. One"
"Once a Mouse Once a Mouse is a 1961 book by Marcia Brown. Released by Scribner Press, it was the recipient of the Caldecott Medal for illustration in 1962, Brown's second honor. ""Once a Mouse"" is a magical Indian fable that tells the story of a small mouse and a hermit that knows how to change animals into something else. One day the hermit is sitting under a tree when suddenly he sees a little, helpless mouse that is going to be eaten by a cat. The hermit decides to change the mouse into a cat. Later the old man"
"Home"" by Hilary McKay (Gollancz) Overall: ""War Game"" by Michael Foreman (Pavilion) Overall: ""The Great Elephant Chase"" by Gillian Cross (Oxford University Press) Overall: ""Farmer Duck"" by Martin Waddell and Helen Oxenbury (Walker Books) Overall: ""Midnight Blue"" by Pauline Fisk (Lion) Overall: ""We're Going on a Bear Hunt"" by Michael Rosen, illus. Helen Oxenbury (Walker Books) Overall: ""Can't You Sleep Little Bear?"" by Martin Waddell and Barbara Firth (Walker Books) Overall: ""A Thief in the Village"" by James Berry (Hamish Hamilton) Overall: ""The Snow Spider"" by Jenny Nimmo (Methuen) Overall: ""Gaffer Samson's Luck"" by Jill Paton Walsh (Kestrel) Nestlé Smarties"
"The Deptford Mice The Deptford Mice is a trilogy of novels by Robin Jarvis, first published in the 1980s. They follow the story of a group of mice living in Deptford, London as they fight an evil cat god named Jupiter. In the sewers of Deptford there lurks a dark presence that fills the tunnels with fear. The rats worship it in the blackness and name it Jupiter, Lord of All. Into this twilight realm wanders a small and frightened mouse. Far from family and friends he perishes, and in doing so is the unwitting trigger of a chain of"
"story"" by listeners of BBC Radio 2. In a 2010 survey by UK charity Booktime, the book came first in a list of children's favourite books. The Dean Heritage Centre in the Forest of Dean, England was given permission by author Julia Donaldson, illustrator Axel Scheffler and the publisher's Macmillan Children's Books, London, UK, to create the Gruffalo trail within the national park. During the time that Julia Donaldson lived in Bearsden, Gruffalo sculptures were installed around Kilmardinny Loch using natural materials, such as a beech tree trunk for the largest one. ""The Gruffalo"" has sold over 13 million copies"
"(1980), tells the story of a Dover mouse who decides to swim the English Channel, not understanding how wide it is. In the early 1980s, Moore returned to live in England, settling in Hampstead, while still working on picture books. Her ""Six Dinner Sid"" (1990), an illustrated book for children about a cat, took six months to complete and won the Nestlé Smarties Book Prize in the under-five category, but during the recession of the early 1990s her flat was repossessed. This had a happy outcome, as Moore then found an apartment in a large but decaying Palladian house in"
"the Nasen award in 2011 for its sympathetic and inclusive portrait of Mary, who befriends Leo but then descends into a severe relapse of her bi-polar condition. Donaldson has also written a phonic reading scheme of short stories comprising 60 books of ""Songbird Phonics"", published by Oxford University Press. From the 1990s when Donaldson was extensively visiting school and libraries, she extended techniques learned in Bristol and Brighton to encourage children to act and sing with her. Following the publication of ""The Gruffalo"" she was invited to book festivals, participating in the Edinburgh International Book Festival every year from 1999"
"by Omnibus Books in Adelaide they asked Fox to reduce the 4½ page book, then entitled ""Hush the Invisible Mouse"", by two-thirds and to change the mice to Australian animals to place emphasis on her Australian theme. ""Possum Magic"" is now one of the most recognised picture books in Australia and has sold over 3 million copies worldwide. The two main characters in ""Possum Magic"" are Grandma Poss and Hush. Hush has been made invisible by her Grandma to protect her from the dangers of the Australian bush. The story details the duo's adventures as they tour Australia searching for"
"Manxmouse Manxmouse: The Mouse Who Knew No Fear is a 1968 children's novel by Paul Gallico. The plot is an epic narrative of the adventures of a creature called a Manx Mouse as he meets and interacts with other people, climaxing in a meeting with a Manx cat who characters say is destined to eat him. A ceramicist who lives in the fictional city of Buntingdowndale in England specializes in making ceramic replicas of mice. One night he gets drunk at a party and comes home intending to make the best mouse figurine he has ever made. With his senses"
"The Snail and the Whale The Snail and the Whale is a children's picture book written by former children's laureate Julia Donaldson, illustrated by longtime collaborator Axel Scheffler. It has won several awards, including 2004 Early Years award for the best pre-school book, the 2005 Blue Peter award for Best Book to Read Aloud, and the 2007 Giverny award for Best Science Picture Book. ""The Snail and the Whale"" has also been adapted into an audiobook, a successful stage play and translated into British Sign Language. Donaldson has said that it is one of her favourite books, due to its"
"The Dark Portal The Dark Portal is the first book in the Deptford Mice Trilogy by Robin Jarvis. It was first published in 1989 and was a runner-up for the 1989 Smarties Book Prize. In the sewers of Deptford there lurks a dark presence that fills the tunnels with fear: Jupiter, a dark god known only by his evil glowing eyes seen behind a dark ""portal"" in the tunnel wall. The rats worship him and do his dark bidding. No one really knows who he is except for his lieutenant Morgan. The Deptford mice, who worship the Green Mouse who"
"to Brattleboro, Vermont, had two children, Rachel and Kate, took jobs in publishing, and started writing children's books. Her first novel was a rejected story about meeting Bigfoot, but her next proposal was published by Henry Holt in 1991 as ""Wish on a Unicorn"". ""Out of the Dust"" is a story of a girl living through the dust bowl of the Depression. The mother of the central character dies giving birth to her stillborn brother Franklin. After the mother dies, Billie Jo and her father try and continue on with their lives. Hesse tackled a more disturbing subject in the"
"friend Sammy, who lived behind a wardrobe mirror. Donaldson is also the author of ""The Giants"" and the ""Joneses"" for children aged 8–12 years. Her teenage novel ""Running on the Cracks"" is set in Glasgow and traces the adventures of orphaned half-Chinese Leo (aged 15) who is fleeing from her dodgy uncle in England and trying to find her father's estranged family. She befriends a schoolboy called Finlay, who is loosely based on Donaldson's youngest son Jerry during his days as a paper boy. ""Running on the Cracks"", whose element of mental illness is drawn from Hamish's hospital experiences won"
"Julia Donaldson. Other successful titles and series include ""Open Very Carefully"", winner of the 2014 Waterstones Children's Book Prize, the ""My Brother is a Superhero"" series, written by David Solomons, which has sold in over 20 languages worldwide and been awarded the 2016 Waterstones Children's Book Prize and the 2016 British Book Industry Award Children's Book of the Year Prize, Pamela Butchart's ""Baby Aliens"" series, which has won a Blue Peter Book Award and a Children's Book Award, ""There's a Bear on My Chair"", winner of the inaugural Amnesty CILIP Greenaway Honour in 2016 and a UKLA Book Award in"
"Lighthouse Mouse Lighthouse Mouse is a Warner Brothers ""Merrie Melodies"" animated cartoon featuring Sylvester the Cat, Hippety Hopper, a lightkeeper who speaks with a pronounced Scottish brogue, a loquacious parrot named Polly, and a very restless and mischievous mouse. First presented in 1955, it was written by Sid Marcus and directed by Robert McKimson, with voice characterizations provided by Mel Blanc. It is 11 o'clock at night at a lighthouse on a small island, and the clock's pendulum is intermittently deflecting the light from the beacon into a mouse-hole downstairs, keeping the resident mouse wide awake. The baggy-eyed rodent crawls"
"The Tale of Despereaux The Tale of Despereaux is a 2003 fantasy book written by Kate DiCamillo. The main plot follows the adventures of a mouse named Despereaux Tilling, as he sets out on his quest to rescue a beautiful human princess from the rats. The novel is divided into four ""books"" and ends with a coda. Each ""book"" tells the story from a different character's or group of characters' perspective, and finally all of them combined. The book won the 2004 Newbery Medal award. In 2007 the U.S. National Education Association named the book as one of its ""Teachers'"
"Cat and Mouse (Ralph Williams story) ""Cat and Mouse"" is a science fiction novelette by Ralph Williams. Originally published in the June 1959 issue of ""Astounding Science Fiction"", it was nominated for, but did not win, the 1960 Hugo Award for Best Short Fiction. The story is set in Alaska. Its main protagonist is Ed Brown, a trapper who has just begun a winter's stay in the wooded mountains. He soon discovers a ""hole"" into another world. At this point in the story, the reader has already been told about the hole and the other world. The other world, named"
"the world and to continue his newfound friendship with the Minpins. The Minpins The Minpins is a book by Roald Dahl with illustrations by Patrick Benson. It was published in 1991, a few months after Dahl's death in November 1990, and is the author's final contribution to literature after an illustrious career spanning almost half a century. The book was republished in 2017 under the title Billy and the Minpins with new illustrations by Quentin Blake. Little Billy is forbidden by his mother to enter the Forest of Sin behind his house. She tells him of the Whangdoodle, Hornswogglers, Snozzwanglers"
"eat it in peace. When the mother squirrel end her story the snow fell. In the credits is seen the house of the snake. ""The Gruffalo"", written by Julia Donaldson and illustrated by Axel Scheffler, was published in 1999 and has sold over 5 million copies worldwide. In a BBC Radio 2 poll in 2009, the book was voted as the UK's favourite bedtime story. The book has been adapted into a 27-minute animated film, which was broadcast on BBC One in the UK on 25 December 2009. This new version features Robbie Coltrane in the title role and James"
"""Eruption! Discovering New Zealand Volcanoes"" by Maria Gill (New Holland) ""How Do You Say 'Thank You’?"" by Karamia Muller, ill. Mark Paterson (Beatnik Publishing) ""Nana’s Colours"" by Pamela Allen (Penguin) ""Whetu: The Little Blue Duck"" by Jennifer Beck, ill. Renee Haggo (David Ling) ""Bruiser"" by Gavin Bishop (Random House) ""Out of Bed, Fred!"" by Lucy Davey, ill. Harriet Bailey (Scholastic) ""Phoebe and the Night Creatures"" by Jenny Hessell, ill. Donovan Bixley (Scholastic) ""Tom and the Dragon"" by Juliette MacIver, ill. Scott Tulloch (Scholastic) ""Hester and Lester"" by Kyle Mewburn, ill. Harriet Bailey (Random House) ""Stomp! A Dinosaur Follow-the-Leader Story"" by"
"Mouse, Look Out! Mouse, Look Out! is a 1998 children's picture book by Judy Waite and Norma Burgin. It is about a mouse being stalked by a cat. In an isolated, abandoned cottage with ""Danger Keep Out"" on the wall, a brown mouse scampers around, at first unaware of being watched and followed by a stealthy black cat. The cat is also being watched, however, and is at last startled into running away. ""BookList"" wrote ""Prereaders can easily grasp the plot just by looking at the wonderfully detailed pictures, but this entertaining, interactive story begs to be read aloud."" and"
"Sydney Opera House in September 2011 and in the UK most years. It returned to the Lyric Theatre, London in Summer 2015. Chessington World of Adventures opened a ride called 'The Gruffalo River Ride Adventure', using the original water transit system used on The Bubbleworks Ride. The book appears in the ""Doctor Who"" series 5 episode ""The Hungry Earth"": Mo reads it to his son, then later by himself before the ""strange event"" happens. The Gruffalo The Gruffalo is a children's book by writer and playwright Julia Donaldson, illustrated by Axel Scheffler, that tells the story of a mouse, the"
"The Merlin Mystery The Merlin Mystery is a 1998 puzzle/children's book, written by Jonathan Gunson and illustrated by Gunson and Marten Coombe. Published by Warner Books and certified by Mensa, it served as an armchair treasure hunt book, challenging its readers to solve the titular mystery by deciphering the pictures to learn how to cast a magic spell, the details of which were to be drawn and sent to an official addess. None of the 30,000 entries received contained the correct solution, so the £75,000 prize was donated to the World Wildlife Fund. The book starts with an unnamed black"